Well you need the screwdriver (with the smorx 5omble bit) to open the maintenance panel and access the button you hold while booting to get the unlocked bootloader, so you can install Linux and then subsequently doom.
You joke, but the ES121 screwdriver has an open source firmware. I think it’s running an STM32F10x (based on the file listings in the firmware). People have gotten Doom to run on an STM32F429, so it’s not that far fetched.
To everyone commenting that you have to convert to binary to represent numbers because computers can’t deal with decimal number representations, this isn’t true! Floating point arithmetic could totally have been implemented with decimal numbers instead of binary. Computers have no problem with decimal numbers - integers exist. Binary based floating point numbers are perhaps a bit simpler, but they’re not a necessity. It just happens to be that floating point standards use binary.
Wrong. Sounds like you think only fixed point/precision could be implemented in decimal. There’s nothing about floating point that would make it impossible to implement in decimal. In fact, it’s a common form of floating point. See C# “decimal” type docs.
I generally interpret “decimal” to mean “real numbers” in the context of computer science rather than “base 10 numbers”. But yes, of course you can implement floating point in base 10, that’s what scientific notation is!
While the paper is well-written overall, contributions on adaptation of alien technology as well as comparison with state-of-the-art are not made clear.
Authors should consider using TikZ to create the diagrams. My Kindle e-reader had difficulty scaling and displaying the diagrams.
The paper’s tone could benefit from more technicality.
The terms “alien”, “ET”, “technology”, and “stuff” have been used ambiguously throughout the paper. The authors should consider including a table of nomenclature.
The experimental results don’t appear to provide sufficient statistical significance on how much the mankind’s genitalia could be pleased using the alien apparatus. The results would be more conclusive if the application of the apparatus on extraterrestrial genitalia is studied too. This has the additional benefit of avoiding to fall for spurious relationships.
They made me go back and demonstrate that stream discharge increases during a flood, and I’m the end we spent so much time and effort working on it, the whole thing changed into a comparative analysis between rainfall and peak discharge.
“I deployed an edge compute environment on this thing, so it can run out SSR backend-for-frontend, but we now have a left-pad issue in our supply chain”
I don’t get the joke. Wouldn’t you need to study the architecture of the alien CPU to see what registers it uses if any and where data goes, and what format the data is expressed in (is it even binary?) so you can write an assembly language for it? Then you would need to write a compiler and then you could get a higher level language going and port Doom. Are we assuming that the alien computer just runs our code?
In fact, for many years now, people have been trying to make Doom run on the most ridiculous things possible (printers, refrigerators, pregnancy tests . . .) just for the heck of it. There are worse hobbies.
That is one of my favorite niche subcultures online. Just a group of people dedicated to a singular purpose that isn’t doing any harm to anyone. I always get excited when I see a new article that ___new device can run Doom
Chaotic good but smaller monitor is on the left, only because I had one shitty monitor I got on sale right out of high school and eventually bought a much nicer but slightly smaller one later.
I have a good 27" as my main, but I don’t have space for a 2nd 27" to either side – best I can fit is a 24". So I guess I’m chaotic good by (forced) choice.
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